Hello everyone, I posted in the noob forum, but i'm not getting much response, so i thought i'd ask uptop. I recently got a laptop custom built for me. I had them partition my harddrive and put linux on it. They ended up putting mint on it, which for the first few days seemed pretty cool. however, after i tried to use some of the special functions of the desktop, (as the "box" advertised) i ran into the brick wall that perhaps my driver was wrong. I proceeded to have my builder take a look at it and he loaded an experimental intel driver. I was not present when he did this, but apparently he used the forums here to find out which one to use. So far i have neither been able to run the cool advanced desktop effects, nor have i been able to see any of the cool screen savers that came with linux. I seem to be up a creek without a paddle. So first thing i want to ask, is where do i go to specifically find out what graphics card i have, and after that (i'm assuming its some sort of intel graphics card (which doesn't make much sense to me)) what driver i should use to be able to take full affect of the linux advanced desktop effects. Any information would be helpful. Thank you!

Welcome to MintGood choice by your supplier, but things could have gone betterOpen a terminal and run lspci and post the output here (you right click in a terminal to copy)This will tell us a lot about your hardware - everything connected to PCI to be preciseI doubt Intel as good Intel drivers are installed by defaultAnd please give me some time to answer - I have long working hours today and tomorrow - we are all unpaid volunteers....

Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)is what i saw, I hope that is what you were looking for... if not i'll try and find something else there. And dont worry, now that i see that alot of you are not on the USA time zone (i should have guessed) i'll be alot more patient than i was. again, thanks for all the help that you have given so far, and no doubt, will be giving in the future.

Ok - you'll be fine except for compizUnfortunately the intel 965 is on the compiz blacklist - all other Intel works fine with compizIt is an integrated graphics so the performance will never be "super" but you will have 3D and the lot, but compiz - sorry noThis means that you should choose none or normal in the visual effects tab of Appearances in Control CenterThis is something we can't control ....

Allright i can understand that, except i dont even have a proper driver for my card yet, my computer guy installed an experimental driver and it started screwing up so i had to remove it, now i cant even find the experimental driver. where should i go?

hi my graphic card is (acording to lspci | grep VGA)00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)is that mean that i wont be able to run compiz on my laptop?so i can't have the cube?another (i know this is not the place, sorry)how can i install my wireless card?

A LOT of searching (and some help with my friend) manage to find out how to get the chipset off the blacklist by doing a bit of work to do it. I managed to get it running fine on here. (though I can't use it for more than a couple days or my laptop locks up...)